Stomping Dinos by OmenThief

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghalta and Mavren

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This Selesnya deck combines go-wide token swarms with go-tall stompy threats led by Ghalta and Mavren. The game plan accelerates through 1-drop mana dorks and efficient 2-drop land ramp to deploy the commander on Turn 5. Once active, Ghalta and Mavren turns early attackers into massive 12/12 trample Dinosaur tokens or vast Vampire swarms. Token multipliers like Anointed Procession, Doubling Season, and Mondrak, Glory Dominus compound this production exponentially. Card draw engines such as Garruk's Uprising, Toski, Bearer of Secrets, and Skullclamp replenish resources as tokens enter or die. The deck protects its board using instant-speed defensive spells like Heroic Intervention and Flawless Maneuver, then closes games on Turn 7 by overrunning defenses with Craterhoof Behemoth or an unblockable wave of giant tramplers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cadira, Caller of the Small
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Colossal Majesty
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Druid's Deliverance
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gavony Township
  • 1 Ghalta and Mavren
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 14 Plains
  • 1 Queen Allenal of Ruadach
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhys the Redeemed
  • 1 Rootborn Defenses
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sundering Growth
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Traverse the Outlands
  • 1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
  • 1 Wayfaring Temple
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth